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Andrew William Wilson, Ph.D Andrew William Wilson, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Assistant Curator of Mycology Denver Botanic Gardens – Research and Conservation 909 York Street, Denver, Colorado 80206 Office: 720-865-3662 Cell: 508-754-8531 - [email protected] October 2019 I. EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D. Biology – Clark University, Advisor: David Hibbett 2003 M.A. Biology: Ecology and Systematic Biology – San Francisco State University, Advisor: Dennis Desjardin 1999 B.A. Humanities – San Francisco State University 1999 B.S. Biology: Ecology – San Francisco State University II. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Current Assistant Curator of Mycology – Denver Botanic Gardens. January 2017 – Current Affiliate Faculty – University of Colorado, Denver. January 2017 – Current Past Adjunct Assistant Conservation Scientist – Chicago Botanic Garden. January 2014 – December 2016 Research Associate – Field Museum of Natural History. Spring 2010-2019. Lecturer – School of the Art Institute Chicago. Fall 2012 – Fall 2016. Lecturer – Wilbur Wright City College, Chicago. Fall 2012 - Fall 2016. Postdoctoral Research Assistant – Purdue University. January – December 2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate – Chicago Botanic Garden. May 2009-December 2012 Adjunct Lecturer – Northwestern University. Fall 2012 Adjunct Lecturer – Loyola University Chicago. Spring 2010. III. PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed (Mentored undergraduate* and graduate† publications) 2019 • Fernández-López J., Telleria M.T., Dueñas M., Wilson A. W., Padamsee M., Buchanan P.K., Mueller G.M., Martin M.P. 2019. Addressing the diversity of Xylodon raduloides complex through integrative taxonomy. IMA Fungus 10(1): 2. 2018 • Cho H. J., Park M. S., Lee H., Oh S-Y, Wilson A. W., Mueller G. M., & Woon Lim Y. W. 2018. Taxonomic re-evaluation of Laccaria (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) in Korea based on morphological and molecular evidence. Mycologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2018.1507542 • Aime M. C., Bell C. D., Wilson A. W. 2018. Deconstructing the coevolutionary complexity between rust fungi (Pucciniales) and their plant hosts. Studies in Mycology 89: 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2018.02.002 • Ning C. †, Mueller G. M., Egerton-Warburton L., Wilson A. W., Yan W., Xiang W. 2018. Diversity and enzyme functioning of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities following nitrogen fertilization in an urban-adjacent pine plantation. Forests 9(99). https://doi.org/10.3390/f9030099 2017 • Jabeen S., Kiran M., Ullah S., Wilson A. W., Mueller G. M., Fiaz M., and Khalid A. N. 2017. Amanita glarea, a new species in section Vaginatae from Pakistan. Phytotaxa, 306(2), 135- 145. Curriculum Vitae – Andrew Wilson 2 • Koch, R. A. †, Wilson A. W., Séné O., Henkel T. O., and Aime M. C. 2017. Biogeography of Guyanagaster necrorhizus (Physalacriaceae, Agaricales, Basidiomycota)—the first known gasteroid fungus to have evolved from a pathogenic ancestor. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(1): 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0877-3 • Wilson A. W., Hosaka K., and Mueller G. M. 2017. Evolution of ectomycorrhizae as a driver of diversification and biogeographic patterns in the model mycorrhizal mushroom genus Laccaria. New Phytologist 213(4):1862-1873. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14270/abstract 2016 • Desai N.†, Wilson A. W., Powers J., Mueller G. M., and Egerton-Warburton L. 2016. Ectomycorrhizal diversity and community structure in stands of Quercus oleoides in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Costa Rica. Ecological Research Letters 11(12) 125007. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/125007/pdf • Leacock P. R., Riddell J., Wilson A. W., Zhang R. †, Ning C. †, and Mueller G. M. 2016. Cantharellus chicagoensis sp. nov. is confirmed by molecular and morphological analysis as a new yellow chanterelle in the American Midwest. Mycologia 108(4): 765-772. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3852/15-230?journalCode=umyc20 2015 • Dutta A. K., Wilson A. W., Antonín V., and Acharya K. 2015. Taxonomic and phylogenetic study on gymnopoid fungi from Eastern India. I. Mycological Progress 14(10):1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11557-015-1094-3 • Wilson A. W., Wickett N., Grabowski P., Fant J., Borevitz J., and Mueller G. M. 2015. Examining the efficacy of a genotyping-by-sequencing technique for population genetic analysis of the mushroom Laccaria bicolor and evaluating whether a reference genome is necessary to assess homology. Mycologia 107(1): 217-226. http://www.mycologia.org/content/early/2014/10/30/13- 278.abstract 2014 • Wilson A. W., and Aime M. C. 2014. The rose rust fungus, Phragmidium tuberculatum, is widespread in North and Central America: first reports from California, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Honduras. Plant Disease 98(11):1581. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-14-0248- PDN • Phosri C., Watling R., Suwannasai N., Wilson A. W., and Martín M. P. 2014. A new representative of star-shaped fungi: Astraeus sirindhornii sp. nov. from Thailand. PloS ONE 9(6):e71160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071160 • Henkel T. W., Wilson A. W., Aime M. C., Dierks J., Uehling J. K., Roy M., Schimann H., Wartchow F., and Mueller G. M. 2014. Cantharellaceae of Guyana II. New species of Craterellus, new distribution records for Cantharellus guyanensis Mont. and Craterellus excelsus TW Henkel & Aime, and a key to the Neotropical taxa. Mycologia 106:307-332. • Wilson A. W., Beckerman J. L., Aime M. C. 2014. First report of the white pine blister rust fungus, Cronartium ribicola, forming telia on Ribes odoratum in Indiana. Plant Disease 98(2):277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-13-0442-PDN 2013 • Tykhonenko Y., Aime M. C., Wilson A. W., and Korytnianska V. 2013. New records of Puccinia helianthi Schw. on Cyclachaena xanthiifolia (Nutt.) Fresen. from Ukraine. Ukrainian Journal of Botany 70(5): 678-680. • Wilson A. W., Hosaka K., Perry B. A., and Mueller G. M. 2013 Laccaria (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) from Tibet (Xizang Autonomous Region, China). Mycoscience 54(6):406-419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.myc.2013.01.006 • Trierveiler-Pereira L., Wilson A. W., da Silveira R. M. B., Domingues L S. 2013. Costa Rican gasteromycetes (Basidiomycota , Fungi): Calostomataceae, Phallaceae, and Protophallaceae. Nova Hedwigia 96(3-4):533-544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0029-5035/2013/0090 2012 Curriculum Vitae – Andrew Wilson 3 • Wilson A. W., Aime M. C., Dierks J., Mueller G. M. and Henkel T. 2012. Craterellus and Cantharellus in Guyana I. New species, distribution records, and a synopsis of known taxa. Mycologia. 104(6):1466-1477. http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/11-412 • Wilson A. W., Binder M. and Hibbett D. S. 2012. Diversity and evolution of ectomycorrhizal host associations in the Sclerodermatineae (Boletales, Basidiomycota). New Phytologist 194(4): 1079-1095. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04109.x 2004-2011 • Wilson A. W., Binder M. and Hibbett D. S. 2011. Effects of gasteroid fruiting body morphology on diversification rates in three independent clades of fungi estimated using binary state speciation and extinction analysis. Evolution 65(5): 1305-1322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558- 5646.2010.01214.x • Desjardin D. E., Wilson A. W., and Binder M. 2008. Durianella, a new gasteroid genus in the Boletineae. Mycologia 100: 956-961. http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/08-062 • Wilson A. W., Hobbie E. A. and Hibbett D. S. 2007. The ectomycorrhizal status of Calostoma cinnabarinum determined using isotopic, molecular and morphological methods. Canadian Journal of Botany 85: 385-393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/B07-026 • Matheny P. B., Wang Z., Binder M., Curtis J. M., Lim Y-W., Nilsson R. H, Hughes K. W., Petersen R. H., Hofstetter V., Ammirati J. F., Schoch C. L., Langer E., McLaughlin D. J., Wilson A. W., Crane P. E., Frøslev T., Ge Z.-W., Kerrigan R. W., Slot J. C., Vellinga E. C., Yang Z.-L., Aime M. C., Baroni T. J., Fischer M., Hosaka K., Matsuura K., Seidl M. T., Vauras J. & Hibbett D. S. 2007. Contributions of rpb2 and tef1 to the phylogeny of mushrooms and allies (Basidiomycota, Fungi). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43: 430-451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.024 • Louzan R.*, Wilson A. W., Binder M. and Hibbett D. S. 2007. Phylogenetic placement of Diplocystis wrightii in the Sclerodermatineae (Boletales) based on nuclear ribosomal large subunit DNA sequences. Mycoscience 48: 66-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10267-006-0325-5 • James T., … Wilson A. W., … (with 68 co-authors). 2006. Reconstructing the early evolution of the Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny. Nature 443: 818-822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05110 • Wilson A. W. and Desjardin D. E. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships in the gymnopoid and marasmioid fungi (Basidiomycota, euagarics clade). Mycologia 97:667-679. http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/mycologia • Wilson A. W., Desjardin D. E., Horak E. 2004. Agaricales of Indonesia. 5. The genus Gymnopus from Java and Bali. Sydowia 56:137-210 In Review • Sadiq Ullah, Andrew Wilson, Rodham Tulloss, Muhammad Fiaz, Gregory M. Mueller, Abdul Nasir Khalid. Amanita cinis and A. olivovaginata (Basidiomycota, Amanitaceae), two new species, and the first record of A. emodotrygon, from Northwestern Pakistan. Mycokeys (Submitted 29 October 2018). Book Chapters • Wilson A. W., May T. W., Mueller G. M. Biogeography of ectomycorrhizal mushroom genus Laccaria. In Ecological Studies: Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Editor Leho Tedersoo. Springer Life Sciences. 2017. • Santiago S.-R., Wilson A. W., Ryberg M. Methods in biogeography of mycorrhiza. In Ecological Studies: Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Editor Leho Tedersoo. Springer Life Sciences. 2017. Other Publications • Evenson V. S., Wilson A. W., Bates S. T. “Of Mountains, Medicine and Mushrooms: The Life and Legacy of Sam Mitchel” FUNGI Magazine (Winter Issue, 2018). Curriculum Vitae – Andrew Wilson 4 • Wilson A. W. 2012. “Hotlips” on the beech. Feature article written for Mycena News (Newsletter for the Mycological Society of San Francisco) and Mycophile (Newsletter of the North American Mycological Association).
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